Crude [Refined]

A grand, violent consumption

of the land and all its muddy mountains

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In a history of dirt,

in a pillar of smoke,

the land is no more

Hills and hollers swallowed into char and ash

The last of the hardwoods tumbling down into pits

to burn and decay

A final genocide

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Night is swelling with bile,

the melancholy humor

Oil rots in the rivers, gunpowder seeds the soil

The ridges are dressed for mourning

55 degrees forever

yet there is laughter in the foul air

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Wandering blindness

It is dark around the edges

They think they are drunk

but this is beyond liquor

A hole into the abyss

Going home to the center of the universe

Flash Issue 5